{"id":13323,"date":"2022-12-15T01:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=13323"},"modified":"2022-12-21T20:10:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T00:10:07","slug":"789-word-war-3-the-weaponization-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/13323","title":{"rendered":"789 &#8211; Word War 3\u2014the weaponization of language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/789-WORDwar-168x100-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13324\" \/><audio controls preload=\"none\"><source src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20221215-justRIGHT-789-WordWar3-theWeaponizationOfLanguage.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><br \/>\nThinking rationally requires accurate and precise definitions without which thinking cannot be valid or effective.  Since <strong>destroying the ability to think is key to the advance of any form of tyranny<\/strong>, this requires the use of anti-concepts \u2013 normal words with twisted definitions that do not correspond to reality in any way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cMisuse of language is the means by which the Marxist cult of communism has done the most serious injury to intelligence,\u201d wrote Isabel Paterson in her monumental work, The God of the Machine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarxist terminology reduces verbal expression to literal nonsense on the basis of fact and usage; <strong>the phrase \u2018dictatorship of the proletariat\u2019 is like \u2018the roundness of a triangle,<\/strong>\u2019 a contradiction in terms.  It has no meaning.  <strong>This is specifically the language of fools;<\/strong> for the deficiency which is indicated by the word \u2018fool\u2019 is <strong>the incapacity to understand categories and the relation of things and qualities.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In other words, <strong>everyone on the Left is a fool or has been \u2018fooled\u2019<\/strong> into believing something that is not so.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps <strong>the most foolish concept<\/strong> to surface of late has been the contradictory \u201cround triangle\u201d concept called <strong>\u201cstakeholder capitalism.\u201d<\/strong>  Described by the king of fools Klaus Schwab as a system in which we will \u201cown nothing and be happy,\u201d his twisted definition is as far from anything to do with capitalism as one can get.<\/p>\n<p>In the realm of political concepts, <strong>the Left represents tyranny<\/strong> while <strong>the Right represents freedom.<\/strong>  So it should not be surprising that <strong>the Left projected its own evil on to the Right, by falsely claiming its own ideology of fascism to be \u201cright wing.\u201d <\/strong> This has destroyed the ability of those who accept this lie to even be able to think about the reality of the choices that face them.  Believing that they have no choice but the lesser of two evils at two ends of an imaginary non-existent \u201cpolitical spectrum,\u201d many on the Right are blinded from making any choice at all, much to the delight of the Left.<\/p>\n<p>Until more people come to understand what\u2019s Just Right and what distinguishes it from everything Left, Word War 3 may soon no longer just be a war of words.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/789-topics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/topics.gif\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/789-clips-credits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/clips_and_credits.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you found this presentation valuable please consider supporting us:<br \/>\n&#x1f9e1; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.me\/justrightmedia\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">PayPal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking rationally requires accurate and precise definitions without which thinking cannot be valid or effective. Since destroying the ability to think is key to the advance of any form of tyranny, this requires the use of anti-concepts \u2013 normal words with twisted definitions that do not correspond to reality in any way. \u201cMisuse of language <a href='https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/13323' class='excerpt-more'>[Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,25,596,28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-capitalism-politics","category-ideas","category-latest","category-politics","issues-concepts","issues-epistemology-2","issues-representation","issues-word-wars","category-12-id","category-25-id","category-596-id","category-28-id","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13323"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13329,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13323\/revisions\/13329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}